Tutorials

Tutorials

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

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AHEC Digital Library
These tutorials are useful for navigating you way around the various recoures on the AHEC Digital Library. They begin from the Welcome page of the ADL, and you will need to be registered before you can access any of the resources mentioned in the the tutorials, with the exception of PubMed.

Logging in the First Time
Time: approx. 2 minutes.
Changing Your Password
Time: approx. 2 minutes.
Guide to Basic Searching Any of the Databases (PDF)
Locating a Citation in PubMed
Time: approx. 3 minutes.
Basic PubMed Searching Part 1
Time: approx. 4 minutes.
Basic PubMed Searching Part 2
Time: approx. 4 minutes.
Basic Ebsco CINAHL Searching Part 1
Time approx. 3 minutes.
Basic Ebsco CINAHL Searching Part 2
Time approx. 5 minutes.
Ebsco's CINAHL Plus Introduction
Time approx. 7 minutes.
Ebsco's CINAHL Plus Advanced Searching
Time approx. 9 minutes.
Registering for CEUs through Ebsco's CINAHL Plus with Fulltext
Time approx. 2 minutes.
Getting Your CEUs through Ebsco's CINAHL Plus with Fulltext
Time approx. 3 minutes.
Locating Articles on the AHEC Digital Library
Time: approx. 4 minutes.
Ordering an Article through ILLiad
Time: approx. 3 minutes.
Downloading an Article from ILLiad
Time approx. 2 minutes.
Locating Journals on the AHEC Digital Library
Time: approx. 4 minutes.
Basic Searching on StatRef
Time: approx. 7 minutes.
Searching for Drug Information
Time: approx 6 minutes.
Locating the ICD-9 Codes
Time: approx 4 minutes.

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

Library Services
These tutorials are useful for navigating you way around the various recoures on the and services we have on our library home page. Some of these are related to the services we have through Carpenter Library.

Searching the Online Catalog
Time approx. 3 minutes.
Ordering an Article through ILLiad
Time: approx. 3 minutes.
Downloading an Article from ILLiad
Time approx. 2 minutes.

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
This tutorial can be used in its entirety or users may select the following individual sections:

PubMed Overview
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1004.html
Gives and overview of PubMed.
Using PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m2001.html
Working with Search Results
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m3001.html
My NCBI
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4101.html
Shows how to register, store searches, and edit user preferences.

PubMed Animated Tutorials

Searching with the MESH Database
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/searching/mesh1.html
Combining MESH Terms
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/combining/mesh2.html
Subheadings and other Features of the MESH Database
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/subheadings/mesh3.html
Searching PubMed for an Author
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/author/author.html
Retrieving Citations from a Journal Issue
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/scm/scmissue_viewlet_swf.html
Simple Search Example
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/search/subject/subject.html
Basic PubMed Searching Part 1
Time: approx. 4 minutes.
Basic PubMed Searching Part 2
Time: approx. 4 minutes.

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

Medline

General Ovid Searching
http://www.ovid.com/site/help/ovid_tutorials.jsp

Basic Medline Searching Part 1 - Demonstrates how to perform a basic search using the new interface Ovid will release February 2008. Time approx. 3 minutes.

Basic Medline Searching Part 2 - Demonstrates how to set limits, combine searches, view abstracts and download a PDF on the new Ovid interface. Time approx. 5 minutes.

Medline

Duke Medical Library Ovid Medline Tutorial
http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/training/ovid
Boston University Medical Center Ovid Medline Tutorial
http://www.medlib.bu.edu/tutorials/ovid/
Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries Ovid Tutorial
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/workshops/ovidmedtut.htmld/ovidtutor1.html

CINAHL

Ebsco CINAHL

Basic Ebsco CINAHL Searching Part 1
Time approx. 3 minutes.
Basic Ebsco CINAHL Searching Part 2
Time approx. 5 minutes.
Ebsco's CINAHL Plus Introduction
Time approx. 7 minutes.
Ebsco's CINAHL Plus Advanced Searching
Time approx. 9 minutes.
Registering for CEUs through Ebsco's CINAHL Plus with Fulltext
Time approx. 2 minutes.
Getting Your CEUs through Ebsco's CINAHL Plus with Fulltext
Time approx. 3 minutes.

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

Evidence-Based Medicine

Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (UNC-CH & Duke)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/services/tutorials/ebm/index.htm
Searching the Medical Literature for the Best Evidence (UNC-CH)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBM_searching/pages/index.htm
Evidence Based Nursing (UNC-CH)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/EBN/splash.htm
Using PubMed to Find Evidence-Based Medicine Articles (UNC-CH)   http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Guides/EBMPubMed.cfm

MedlinePlus Tour

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/tour.html

Current Awareness/Topic Updates

MedlinePlus Email Announcements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/medlineplus/listserv.pl?lang=EN
My NCBI
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m4101.html
Shows how to register, store searches, and edit user preferences.

Evaluating Online Information

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/eval/Index.htm
University of California, Los Angeles
www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical
University of Southern Maine
http://library.usm.maine.edu/research/researchguides/webevaluating.html

AHEC Digital Library | Library Services| PubMed | Medline| CINAHL| Evidence-Based Medicine | MedlinePlus | Current Awareness/Topic Updates | Evaluating Online Information | Boolean Logic | Finding Drug Information | Finding Health Statistics | Citing Electronic Resources

Boolean Logic

Ithaca College Library
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html
American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/training/boolean.html

Miscellaneous
Finding Drug Information Online (UNC-CH)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/DrugInformation/splash.htm

Finding Health Statistics (UNC-CH)
http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/Hstats/index.htm

Citing Electronic Resources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

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